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This package contains classes that allow the creation
and manipulation of service tags.
This com.sun.servicetag package is intended for
<b>Sun internal use</b> only.
<p>
<dl>
<dt><b>Service Tag</b></dt>
<dd>A service tag is an XML-based data structure that contains identifying
information about an instance of a product or component on a system.
</dd>
</dl>
<dl>
<dt><b>Service Tag Registry</b></dt>
<dd>A service tag registry is a XML-based registry that contains
the service tags of all the tagged components on a system.  The
service tag registry is present on systems that have the
Service Tags software installed.
</dd>
</dl>
<dl>
<dt><b>Registration Data</b></dt>
<dd>A registration data is a container of one or more
service tags that identify the
components for product registration and will be used to interface
with the Sun Connection registration services.
</dd>
</dl>

This package contains the methods to create service tags, set up the
registration data for product registration, add service tags to and
remove them from the system service tag registry.
<p>
All methods defined in this package will throw {@code NullPointerException}
if {@code null} is passed in any input parameter unless it is stated otherwise.
In addition, they are multi-thread safe.
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